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From Original Papers in flee Possession of the Family. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary o her Uajesty. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at l 0 minutes past Three o' Clock. WITH WHICH "THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, 1838. In the HOUSE of LORDS last night, petitions were again poured in from various parts both of England and Scotland for the Ballot, an Extension of the Suffrage, and the Shortening the Duration of Parliament. Amongst an immense number of petitions presented by Lord BROUGNA M, deprecatory of the Ministerial policy in respect of Canada, was one from Chelsea, c xlling for the Impeachment of Ministers. The same Noble and Learned Lord also presented petitions from several bodies of Dissenters against any further grants to the Church of Scotland; and from BedfJrd, in favour of Mr. HILL's Plan of Post-office Reform. In the florsE of COMMONS, after the presentation of peti tions, and the balloting for Committees to try the merits of the Roxburgh, Ipswich, and Salford elections, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved for, and after a few words from Mr. WARBURTON, Mr. HINDLEY, and Mr. T. ATTWOOD, obtained, leave to bring in a Bill to amend the law with respect to cle rical members of joint stock companies. The Right Hon. Gentleman observed that he felt it necessary to make this motion in consequence of a recent decision by the Court of Exchequer, to the effect that it was unlawful for a clergyman in orders to be a member of any joint-stock company. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER obtained leave also to bring in a Bill for the foundation and endowment of additional schools in the Highlands of Scotland. And in alswer to some objections urged against the measure by Mr. WALLACE and Mr. Gri.LoN, he said that " he regretted to heargentlemen f rom S cot l and speak of the system of paroc hi a l education in that country, which had always been regarded as great boast of S cot l an d , to b e a sectarian system. H e con sidered it to be national in its widest sense. He admitted, lic7ever, that imp rovement was practicable, and he agreed i n opinion With those who thought that the first step ought to the institution of normal schools for adequately qualifying the schoolmasters." Captain BOLDER() then moved for Returns of the number of deserters from her Majesty's troops stationed in the Canadas, between the years 1830 and 1837. The production of the return—to the expressed surprise of Captain WOOD, and the declared dissatisfaction of Mr. LEADER and Mc. HOME—was pertinaciously refused by the Secretary at War. Mr. FRENCH obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the better r.sgu7ation of Medical Charities in Ireland. The Report of the Court of Session ( Scotland) Bill was bought up by the LORD ADVOCATE, and after a few observa tions from Mr. HumE, in which he recommended a limit to the granting of allowances to retired Sheriffs' Substitutes, the re port was agreed to. The House adjourned at a quarter to Eight o'Clock. In our columns of this day will be found a letter from Mr. SIIARMAN CRAWFORD on the important subject of the Ell now before Parliament for the rt.lie of the indigent Poor in Ireland, to which we direct the attention of our readers. Though differing frum the ex• Member for Dundalk upon many important questions, and being, moreover, by no means disposed to regard as either patriotic or politic the course of his opposition to Mr. O'CONNELL, WC must candidly admit that his unwearied solicitude for the welfare of the Irish poor is more than adequate, in our opinion, tc cover all his poli al transgressions. His Land lord and Tenants' Bill, though it attracted but a small share of the attention of Parliament and the country, was a measure which contained the germ of vast im provement ; nor do we believe that Ireland will ever be permanently happy and contented, till some such enactment is brought practically into operation in that country. As the letter which we this day publish is to be followed up by others, we shall leave Mr, CRAWFORD to explain, argue, and defend his own peculiar views ; not because we do not take as lively an interest as even he does in the social happiness of the poor of the Sister Country; but because, like the Reverend Mr. O'MALLEY, :and Mr. MICHAEL STAUNTON, our main anxiety is to procure for ~ hem the right of legal relief in any shape as a step to a more pet feet system. We have again and again stated that we would prefer, an hundred times over a Poor Law Bill founded on the report of Mr. BLAKE, and the Archbishops of Dublin, to a measure based on the recommendations of Mr. NICEIOLL ; but seeing that the Government obstinately refuse to make Mr. BLAKE'S report the basis of a legislative enactment, we gladly accept any Bill rather than leave Ireland any longer in her present state of deplorable destitution. We never pretended that the Government Bill was not susceptible of great improvement ; but rather than get none, we, in the name and on behalf of the indigent poor of Ireland, accepted it with thankfulness ; content if we could only secure the legal recognition of the principle that the people were not to be suffered to starve so long as they were willing to work. That the workhouse system will ever succeed satisfactorily in Ireland we by no means expect ; but even its failure will not be without many advantages which are now hardly so much as dreamt of by poor or rich. The workhouse system is peculiarly adapted to a population subsisting on weekly earnings—to mechanics and day labourers lia ble to be thrown suddenly, and for uncertain periods, out of employment—and therefore no system could be better adapted to England and the Western districts of Scotland. In Ireland, on the contrary, the great mass of the poor are cotters—depending for support on the produce of sub-tenements of land, and therefore what they most require is not shelter in a workhouse, but some trifle to enable them to await the ripening of their scanty crops. They want, in short, out-door relief, because they have no earnings to depend upon, and because,t,if immured in a workhouse for several weeks during the summer, their crops must be totally destroyed from the inroads of cattle, and the want of culture. This fact will soon become apparent ; and as a necessary consequence, the Bill will not be passed a year before the expediency of amending it will be admitted by its very framers. But once passed there will be no possibility of adopting measures for its simple and unconditional repeal. It will en gender a new state of social feeling and of society which can never be eradicated—it will give the poor a right in the soil of which it will be impossible ever to deprive them—and it will, by trenching u p on t h e power of the heartless landed Aristocracy of Ireland, prepar e the way for agricultural and commercial im provements from which the labouring population will derive the greatest advantages. Mr. O'CONNELL complains that the Bill taxes the industrious for the maintenance of the idle and the improvident. In what branch of useful industry do the landed Aristocracy of Ireland excel? 'Where are the evidences to be sought of their provident habits? For what are they distin guished if not for the amount of their debts—their . _ • Aft, .4411" 1w THE SUN, LONbON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1838. Committees appointed were for the county of Roxburgh, and the boroughs of Ipswich and Salford. In the Committee for the borough, the Liberals have a majo rity of one, and in that for the county a majority of five. We believe, in the following list, the politics of the different members of the Committees, are correctly stated : COUNTY OF ROXBURGH.—B. Hall (L.); J. Duff (L.) ; Lord W. Bentinck (L.); C. A. Walker (L.) ; W. Mar shall (L.); Sir F. C. Style (L.); C. W. Packe (T.) ; W. Bagge (T.); Edward Strutt (L.); Col. Sir C. B. Vere (T.); and J. Murray (L. ).--Tories, 3 ; Liberals, 8. BOROUGH or Ipswicir.—M. E. N. Parker (T.) ; J. W. Bramston (T.): T. Winnington (L.); J. C. Westenra (L.); Rich. Jenkins (T.); Wm. Evans (L.); Sir R. He ron (L.l; R. B. Hale (T.) ; H. Broadley (L.) ; D. Darner, (T.); R. Archbold (L.).—Tories, 5 ; Liberals, 6. BOROUGH OF SALFORD.—CoIoneI S a l we y, (L.); N. Fitz- Simon, (L.); J. R. 0. Gore, (T.); Viscount Maidstone,(T.); Capt. Ellice, (L.); J. G. Heathcote, (T.); Earl of Euston, (L.); T. Bowes, (L.); Lord C. S. Manners, (T.); Major Arlacnamara, (L.) ; General O'N e ill, (T.) —Tories, 5. Liberals, 6. We have received advices from Madrid, of the 28th ult. During the two previous days the Chamber of Deputies were engaged in an animated, and far from decorous, debate on the disturbed state of the adjacent Provinces. Senor JAEN, by whom the debate was opened, gave a frightful account of the ravages of the Carlists in Toledo and Ciudad Real, and emphatically affirmed that unless immediate steps were taken, all communication between the capital and Andalusia, Murcia, Albacete, Valencia, Alicante, and Catalonia would be entirely cut ofi. Madrid would be virtually in a state of blockade. The Minister of War admitted that the Carlists were committing fright ful atrocities ; but contended that the Government was not to blame, as it had appointed NA R VAICZ to the chief command in the districts alluded to, and sent for the use of the army a convoy of clothes and shoes, and twenty thousand dollars in money. Senor OLO ZAGA attacked the Ministry on the score of being composed of materials adverse to the Constitution. Count TORENO defended the Government with more than his wonted dogmatism and offensiveness of manner ; and such was the general excitement in the Chamber, from the asperity with which personal at tacks were made and repelled, that the Assembly more resembled a bear-garden than a meeting of States men for legislative purposes. And yet, notwithstand ing the frequency of such recriminations, and the apparent solicitude of the Cortes, the condition of Spain is worse now than it was at any time since the death of FERDINAND. France regards the civil war with indifference, affecting to believe that the expression of her sympathies for Spain is a huge con cession on the part of so great a nation ; Portugal is too weak to protect herself ; and England looks at her feats on a crag of the Peninsula, and takes credit to herself for unbounded generosity. In the mean time Don CARLOS is receiving large subsidies from the northern Powers, and public credit is declining apace in the Spanish Capital. The Paris Journals of Sunday and Monday, re ceived this morning, bring the following telegraphic dispatches from the Spanish frontier : " General Espartero marched from Logrono on receipt of intelligence that the Carlists meditated a new attack against Balmweda, and joined General Latre, at Villarcayo, on the 27th. The General-in-Chief had sixteen battalions under his orders. On the 25th Tallada and Basilio Garcia formed a junction in the mountains or Sierra of Alcaraz. Their united force; amounted to between 6,000 and 7,000 men. General Ulibarri was to have joined Brigadiers Sanz and A3piroz on the 26th. The latter was marching up to meet him from Cuenca. . " General O'Donnell returned to his former position of Ekrnani on the 31st." " The Carlists, attacked on the 30th by General Espartero, in the neighbourhood of Balmaseda, retreated on Orantia, from whie'l position they were dislodged on the 31st, notwith standing their having received in the night a reinforcement of four battalions. The loss of the Carlists is estimated at too lied. One of their Chiefs, the Marquis de 8t.,13x1a, remained on the field of battle." In the Chamber of Deputies on Monday, the BiL for granting a pension to the widow of General DAmREmoNT was discussed at great length. One section of the Deputies was for reducing the grant, as well as limiting the period of its duration ; and the other for adopting it as proposed by the Government. The result was not known when the mails left Paris. A letter from Bayonne of February Ist, has the following intelligence : A project for re-organising the English Legion, is spoken of. It is said that an attempt will be made to enter into new engagements. Colonel de Lasaussie, belonging to the ancient Legion, and who bad been sent to Madrid with instructions from the supe rior Committee, is expected to-morrow, with a sum of money amounting to 100,000 francs, intended for this purpose. An extraordinary courier has arrived in this city with despatches from the Spanish Consul. These despatches relate to the rangements made a few days ago at San Sebastian, for ti.e maintenance of the troops. It is announced that the siege of Balmaseda is commenced. The intention of thedailists is to cut off the main body of the forces of Espartero on that side, and by means of that mauceuvre to send away the two expeditions which are only waiting for a favourable rnoment.—ConstitutionneL TOULON, JAN. 31.—Alarming reports have lately been spread respecting the critical situation in which our troops at Constantine were said to be placed ; happily they prove to be unfounded. A merchantm an w hi c h l e f t B ona on the 15th brings word that the greatest tranquillity continued to prevail in the pro vinces, and that the garrison of Constantine was in want of no thing. The Markets are well supplied, and the natives of the neighbouring country r esor t to t h em i n great nu mbers. Major- General Negri er , w h o h as t h e comman d o f C on stantine, has been able to maintain a state of security. BAYONNE, FEB. I.—While ships coming from England land at Bilbao their cargoes of goods, some of which are prohibited, w ithout th e i r b e i ng su bj ecte d to a ny examination, vessels coming from France, on th e contrary, are most rigorously searched. Some boxes of tobacco which were em. barked in a ship from Bayonne have been seized.—Commerce, Sept. 5. FRENCH FUNDS —PAals, Fes. 5. Five per Cents., 109 f. 70c. 65c. 7Cc. Four and a Half per Cents. 105 f. 50c. l'hree per Cents., 79f. 80c. 75c. 70c. Bank Actions, 2,630 f. Rente de Naples, 96f. SOc. Roman Five per Cents., 101%. Spanish Actives, 19% 20, Spanish Passives, 44. Spanish Differes, 7. Belgian Loan, 103%. Belgian Bank, 1,505 f. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. 17%. Dutch Two and a half per Cents.. 53%. EXCHANGR •N LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 45c. ; money, 25f. 42.±40 Three months, paper, 25f. 321ie.; money, 25t. 30c. _ - Five per CenLtAs.SITO9Pf.RBzIcC.E3.- Three per Cents. 71/t . . Ssc. Bank Actions, 2,630 f. Romans ' 101yi. Belgian Loan, ionli. Belgian Bank, 1,505 f. Portuguese Three:per Cents., 17N. Spanish Actives, 20. Spanish Passives, 4%. New Differes, 7. Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 533 i. TILE WEATIIRR. LONDON, FEB. 7..—11 l Murphy's Almanack, yesterday is marked " fair," and this day his predicti o ns are mere"chan g g u e e a s b se le : s'l'ikeanthdosief,of the ven era bl e M oore, i t cannot be as some say , denied that he guesses with wonderful precision. Yesterday was one of the finest winter-day s we ever saw—the thermo meter 30 deg. at 9 A. at., and the barometer 30 deg. 10 BM, with an east wind. Towards midnight the wind became southerly, with a considerable fall of sleet. This morning there has been a good deal of rain, the thermometer at noon stood at 45 deg., and the barometer bad fallen to 29 deg. 60 Sec., with a south wind. A meeting of the Citizens' Club, Kilkenny, has been held, at which a resolution of confidence in Mr. O'Con nell, in reference to his recent exertions on the subject of combination, was proposed by Mr. Buggy, an d unanimously adopted. The King's Dragoon Guards , stationed at Dun dalk, feel so uch pleasure at the thoughts of going to Ca nada, that on the riding master (Mr. Hammersley) leaving the barracks for North America, to purchase horses for the regiment, the whole six troops turned out, took the horses from the carriage, drew him with eheers round the liarracks, out of the gates, and part of the way from town, the trumpeters playing " God save the Queen." ELGIN BOROUGH ELECTION.—.The accounts re ceived in town from Elgin this morning are quite favourable to Mr. Maule's election. The opposition was declining, and it was supposed would wholly cease before the day of nomi nation. LORD DURHAM'S PRIVATE SECRETARY.—Mr. Ellice, who has been appointed private secretary to Lord Durham, will have no official power whatever. His situation is quite private and confidential with regard to Lord Durham, and will give him no influence in the Government of Canada. The Prince and Princess of Capua left Paris on Thursday last for London, and are accompanied by their infant Prince. The noble suite was to proceed by easy stages, and are shortly expected at Mivart's Hotel, IPSWICH ELECTION COMMITTEE. THIS DAY. The Committee met, and elected Mr. Jenkins 'for t chairman. Messrs. Theasiger, Talbot, and Wrangl am were for the Tory side, and Messrs. D. Pollock, Austin, and C. Phillips for the Liberals. their Previous to the petition being read, Mr, TALBOT suggested that the witnesses on both sides should be ordered to withdraw. The Committee came to a resolution to that effect. Mr. TALBOT said an exception had been asked on the other side in favour of the solicitor on behalf of the Tory petitioner (Mr. Rodwell), who was a witness on that side. Mr. Pol lock could not give a definitive answer, but had agreed that the examination of this gentleman should not be prejudiced by bis remaining during the reading of the petitions. The petitions were then read. One WM against the re turn of Mr. Tuffnell, and stated that Mr. Kelly had the legal majority at the election over that gentleman on the ground of improper rejection and reception of votes, and of bribery and corruption on the part of Mr. Tuffnell's friends. The other petition was against the return of Mr. Gibson (the Tory Member), and claiming a legal majority for Mr. Wason. This petition contained the same allegations of bribery and corruption on the Tory side, at the election, and of improper rejection and reception of votes. It was agreed that an agent on either side should be allowed to remain. Mr. THESSIGER then opened the case on behalf of the Tory petition, stating that the case would resolve itself entirely into a scrutiny. The numbers at the poll were, for Mr. Gib son 601, Mr.'Tuffnell 595, Mr. Wason 593, Mr. Kelly 593. The class of objections which would be proceeded wit h would be those grounded 'On removal of residence, within the year previous to voting at the late election. As soon as he had turned the majority in favour of Mr. Kelly, which would be done by the striking off two votes only, it would be for his Learned Friend on the other side to break down that majority. Mr. POLLOCK objected to his being called on so suddenly to open his case, and begged to be allowed to defer it till to morrow. After some discussion, this was assented to. The scrutiny then commenced—the poll-book and register of the late election having been put in. ROXBURGH ELECTION COMMIT TEE.-(THIS DAY.) The Comittee assembled this morning at eleven o'clock, when the LORD ADVOCATE was chosen Chairman. Mr. Thessiger, Mr. Austin, and Mr. Montague Smith ap peared on behalf of the Petitioner, (Hon. Francis Scott ;) and Mr. Sergeant Merrewether, Mr. Sergeant Andrews, and Mr. Murray, on behalf of the sitting Member, ( Mr. Elliott.) The petition was then read, setting forth riot, intimidation, and irregularity in the polling, as the means by which the re turn of the sitting Member was effected. Mr. THESSIGER in opening the case for the petitioner, said that he could not conceal from the Committee, the importance of this inquiry, for it referred not only to this county, but to every place in the Kingdom, 1 arid the result of their decision would be either the free and uncontrolled exercise of the elective franchise, or the deliver. ing over the election to the fury of a violent and ungovernable mob ; because, if it went abroad that this tribunal, the highest that could be appealed to in such matters, sanctioned by their decisions such proceedings as were set forth in the petition, every polling place in the kingdom would become a scene of violence and confusion. He was anxious, as far as it was con sistent with the due performance of the duty which he had to discharge, to confine within the narrowest limits possible the statements which he was about to lay before them, in order that they might clearly understand the circumstances referred to in the petition. At the late election for Roxburgh, these were three polling places appointed, viz., Jedburgh, Kelso, and Hawick. The nomination took place on the Ist of Au gust, 1837, and the polling on the 3d and 4th. No complaints were made either of the day of nomination or of the first day of polling, but on the close of the second days polling, at Hawick, Mr. Elliott obtained by riot and intimidation, a colourable ma jority of 44. In order the better to understand the circumstances under which that majority was obtained, it would be necessary to glance at the preceding elections. In the years 1832 and 1835, the elections which took place in this country were at tended with rioting and violence ; but this was naturally to be expected, because new constituencies had under the Reform Bill been called into existence—parties had been invested with new rights, and not being accustomed to the exercise of them, some little ebullition of feeling was to be expected;_ and therefore his client did not lay much stress on that part of the petition. In 1835, however, when one would have supposed the excitement consequent on the causes to which he had alluded would have subsided, a much more riotous spirit was manifested, and a determination evinced to offer violence to the persons of those electors who were in the interest of Lord John Scott, and to so great an extent was this carried, that the Sheriff was obliged to call out the military, and read the Riot Act, before the disturbance could be quelled. After the dissolution of Parliament consequent on the demise of the 1 late King, it was evident, from the feeling that was manifested, that the exercise of the franchise by the Conservative electors :could he attended with great danger. The ease against the sitting Member in the present instance, was, that the rioting and intimidation by which his return was ob tained, was notoriously the result of concert and premedita tion—of plans previously arranged amongst his friends, deter mined by them, and carried into excution to the letter. He would be able to prove that for ten days previous to the election, intimations had been given to different electors of the treatment they might expect if they voted for his oppo nent. Farmers, who came to Hawick upon their own private business, were forced to remain in the town until after they had voted for Mr. Elliott. A Mr. Wilson, who held the office of belie in the town, told a person who would be produced as a witness, that they (the supporters of Mr. Elliott, should not be beaten so easily, and described to him the treatment which the electors in the interest of his opponent should receive—amongst other things, that they should be well ducked. In the manufactory of one of the ' , resent baillies of the town, where there were between thirty and forty men at work, the mode in which the Conservative electors were to be dealt with was openly discussed, and it would he found that some of these persons were the principal actors in the riots which subsequently took place. Not merely were threats uttered against those who dared to vote, but it was impossible for any one of the Conservative electors to show himself without being openly insulted, Lord John Scott and Mr. Scott, who had been in the town for some days previous to the election, were surrounded by a mob in the streets, who insulted and threatened them. They found some difficulty in escaping from them, and shortly after some of these persons were heard to express their regret that thby had succeeded in getting away from them. With all these circumstances before their eves, with all the violence and confusion which had attended the election of 1835, it was impossible for the Conservatives not to apprehend the re cur' ence of similar, if not worse scenes, and the danger of going to the poll, unless they were assured of safe protection. They had before experienced the insufficiency of the civil force to give them that protection, and, therefore, a short time before the election they presented a requisition to the Sheriff, signed by ninety-six inhabitants of Hawick, re questing him to call a military force, as otherwise they did not deem they would be safe in venturing to the poll. The Sheriff forwarded the requisition to the Lord Advocate on the 26th of July, and accompanied it with a letter request ing instructions as to how he was to proceed. The Lord Advo cate in his reply, stated that he had applied to the Crown agent for information with respect to the facts stated in the re quisition as to the acts of violence committed and the property destroyed at the former election, and could obtain no comfirma tion of the statements from any of the documents lodged in his office. He requested to be informed what these acts were of which the requisitionists complained, and who were the parties stated to have been assaulted. In conclusion, his Lordship observed, " that he considered the presence of the military at elections highly unconstitutional, and that he was informed their presence at the last election at Hawick, had tended very much to produce the excitement and viru lence complained of." The person who supplied his Lordship with this information, they would presently find, were not persons whose statements could be relied upon. The information which the Lord Advocate required was promptly supplied by the Sheriff on the 29th of July, who stated, on the authority of the Procurator Fiscal, that one of these cases had been reported to the Crown Office, but that the others he had only taken verbal cognizance of, as he did not wish to keep up by any further proceedings the degree of excitement which prevailed. After detailing at considerable length the further correspondence which took place between the Lord Advocato and the Sheriff on this subject, the Learned Counsel stated that on the Chief Magistrate of Hawick and the, junior Baillie of the town offering to take on themselves the re sponsibility of preserving the peace of the town with the civil force under their command, the Lord Advocate gave direc tions that it should be entrusted to them—a proceeding which the Learned Counsel contended was highly censurable, inas much as it had been before found that the civil force was in sufficient for this purpose - and further, because these officials were violent partizans of Mr. Elliott. The Magistrates gladly received the trust ; they swore in 50 constables who were sent them from the country ; and on the same day 160 of the people of the town, and afterwards, when the necessity loudly demanded it, they made the extraordinary effort of swearing in 90 more. (LEFT SPEAKING.) We will give the conclusion in our Second Edition. FLOATING DEBT.--In reference to the City article of the Chronicle, which appears in another part of our paper, we must observe that by a return laid before the House of Commons on the sth instant, it is stated that the whole a mount of the outstanding Exchequer Bills, on January the sth, 1838, was 24,044,5501. It is added that a greater amount than this will not have to be provided for during the year 1838. The City Correspondent of the Chronicle is probably in error, therefore, in estimating the Floating Debt at fifty millions sterling. Sir Henry Halford gave a sumptuous dinner on Monday evening, in Curzcn-street, on the occasion of the first meeting of the College of Physicians for the season, to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge (attended by Colonel Jones) Lord Fitzgerald and Vescy, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Denman, the Vice-Chancellor, Sir Robert Inglis, Mr. Justice Vaughan, Lord Chief Justice Tindal, Mr. Justice Patteson, Mr. Baron Bolland, and Sir Charles Vaughan. The Duke of Wellington, Viscount Melbourne, and the Earl of Aberdeen, were invited, but sent apologies, being engaged in the House of Lords. At nine o'clock Sir Henry and his guests ad journed to the magnificent building of the College in Tra falgar-square, where the first soirée of the season took place. reckless dissipation—and their oppression of a pea santry as docile, as self-denying, and as high-principled as any in Europe ? We hear a great deal about mortgages upon estates, as if the Legislature was called upon to be more tender of the wrecks of extravagance than of the lives of an innocent people. But inde pendently of the justice of the principle of the Bill, we contend that it will have the effect of raising the value of landed property in Ireland to an extent almost incredible, and thus confer a mutual benefit upon the poor and rich of that country. The instant landlords find that their property is liable to be taxed to a large amount annually, to support the famishing idle on their estates, they will adopt measures for the establishment of such manu factures, and the encouragement of such agricultural improvements, as will enable the idle to find profitable employment. Thus self-interest will prompt landlords to study and promote the welfare of their tenantry, and the natural consequence will be—improvement in the soil, an increase of manufactures, a growing rental, and a happy and peaceable tenantry. We are rather surprised that the Chronicle this morning should attack the Right Hon. CHARLES WILLIAMS WYNN for acting in his vocation. Some men, like BONAPARTE, are born to raise up empires ; others, like GEORGE IV., to adjust the tags of aigu lettes. In the House of Commons, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, when not hampered by some lingering likings for Toryism, is celebrated for expounding the soundest principles of statesmanship, and Mr. WYNN is prodigiously great at little technicalities. He was, in fact, only fulfilling his destiny, when he strenuously objected last night to the reduced lists of the Election Committees being presented three minutes before the half hour, required by the law, had elapsed. To obey the law, and particularly the Grenville law, because it is clear, definite, useful, and just, is the first duty of all the people ; and how could Mr. WYNN call on them to perform this duty, if he suffered such an important statute to be violated in such an important point un der his very nose ? If one man, too, may interpret half an hour to mean twenty minutes, another may say it is forty--and then each would follow his own devices by interpreting the law according to his own views. Moreover, the House of Commons unani mously refused to her MAJESTY in Council only a few nights ago, the power of suspending the Act fur suppressing the Constitution of Canada ; and it was, therefore, clearly impossible for Mr. WYNN, in the teeth of such a solemn proceeding, to allow the Clerk of the House, and the Counsel for the parties, to suspend for three minutes the clue operation of the Grenville Act. Mr. WYNN was well aware that if Barristers might suspend the law, so might Judges, and Lord ABINGER would then have been deserving of the censure of the House, for not having suspended the law relative to clergymen engaging in trade, in stead of interpreting it literally, strictly, and legally, and so exposing the wisdom of the Honourable House to many caustic remarks. In the course of the evening the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE QUER moved for leave to bring in a Bill to alter that law ; and he means, the law is so bad, to give his measure a retrospective operation. Now that expo sure of the House might have been saved, had Lord ABINGER, like the Clerks and the Counsel, suspended the law, and Mr. WYNN could therefore do no less than irisist on all the technicalities being strictly pre served as a shield for Lord ABINGER. As the Chro nicle remarks also, how could Mr. WYNN, or any parchment grub, possibly tell what would be the con sequence of not adhering to the strict rule ? We can not, therefore, agree with our Contemporary in blaming Mr. WYNN for fulfilling his part in the social system ; it being clearly of no consequence to him whether the State be saved or justice done, provided only the letter of the admirable Grenville Act be scrupulously ob served. Of course the Right Hon. Gentleman will follow his rule on all other occasions, and compel, as far as he can, all the Judges to act on it ; and when technicality shall in every branch of life have sup planted justice, we shall be a great, happy, and glo rious people, and have a WYNN for our Emperor. The nickname of " Shabbies," given by the Tory Journalists to the Ministers, is at present the chief missile which they hurl on all occasions. By contrast they claim for the Tory Ministers the epithet of " the Splendids." To make a great show on credit, and to spend in magnificence the property of other people, is one of the vices of our times; and the race of the Splendids, whether in Downing-street or on the Ex change—whether they live in tasteful villas, like FA UN TLEROY, or haunt lodging-houses like those who make tradesmen their victims—are amongst the greatest inflictions the honest and industrious part of the community now have to bear with. How far the extravagance in private life may have been caused by an unthinking imitation of the reckless extrava gance of Tory Governments, throwing away the wealth of the people, is a curious enquiry into which we cannot enter ; but the record of their waste, to be found at the Bank of England, is the schedule of the insolvent JoHN BULL'S estate under the management of the Splendids. That he is bound to keep the peace in a penalty of 800,000,0001. may possibly be a benefit for the whole world; but the Herald mourns over the bond which the Splendids have made him sign. " England," it says, " cannot have a little war, but how is England to sustain a large war ? The non-productive classes, the idle consumers, the mere monied capitalists, never yet, i n the history of the world, cared for aught but to extend the power of money, and to secure their enjoyments." These are the classes of course who were made the cre ditors of JOHN BULL by the Splendids, and the Herald insists that they care nothing whether the power of England be destroyed or not. By the proceedings of the Splendids, then, England is now obliged to crouch according to their own journals before the despotic empire of Russia, and the free republic of the United States. The present Ministers entered into the admi nistration of a devastate property ; they could not be generous nor magnificent like their predecessors ; and those who dilapidate the national resources, like other spendthrifts, now continually abuse them. The new projects of the Splendids are as extra vagant as their former acts. " If," says the Herald, " it be desirable to avoid a war with the United States," we must have 50,000 men in the North American Provinces, 30,000 in Canada, and 20,000 in the direction of the boundary line, or 100,000 men in America. To frighten Rus sia, we must treble the number of our ships in the Black Sea, and in the Mediterranean. In short to avoid a war, we must at once incurr all its evils, except its bloodshed. The means proposed by the Herald to resuscitate the national resources, and give energy to patriotism is worthy of the splendid PEEL Bill, described by our Contemporary as the curse of the country, and the " repeal of the deadly Currency Bill of 1819," as the first necessary step towards re covering the power of England. The Splendids would begin their new career of extravagance by cheating their creditors. To have the power of making a " great war," they would again, by paltering with the currency, inflict a severer visitation on the country than famine or pestilence. The ballot on election petitions commenced yester day, and as the result often depends on the composi tion of the Committee, the Liberals have reason to be thankful to fortune for such a good beginning. The BRITISH INSTITUTION.—(Tnis DAY.) We were favoured with a private view of this Institu tion this morning, which contains many of the best pro ductions of our modern artists. Among our favourites we recognise not a few pictures that were exhibited last year in the National Gallery, but which are seen to much greater advantage, in consequence of the walls being not so inconveniently crowded. No. 12, Wood Nymph, which is one of the first paintings that attracts the eye on entering the Gallery, is a glowing richly-coloured figure of a young female, in a state of semi-nudity. The countenance has a very ♦oluptuous expression, which we think, would have bet ter become a Bacchante than a Dryad. The drawing of the figure is good, and the attitude easy and graceful. The artist is Patten, who has painted few better things. No. 78, Mont St. Michel, Normandy, by Cooke, has a higl4- finished fore-ground, which reminds us, " as with a diffe rence," of the manner of Collins, in his sea-shore pictures. No. 85, A Nonagenarian, a Study, is the portrait of an old man who is busy poring over a leading article in the Standard. His countenance expresses deep attention ; and the lights and shades on the forehead are well developed. No. 133, Mary Queen of Scots, is a delineation of that celebrated scene in the Abbot, where the imprisoned Queen is signing her abdication, in presence of the Lords Commissioners of Scotland. The stern face and stalwart figure of the rude, semi-barbarous Lyndsey, who snatches hold of Mary's arm with his gauntletted hand, in order to force her into compliance with his political schemes, are drawn with great force and freedom. The kneeling female figure too in the foreground is replete:with unstudied elegance. No. 164, A Looking-glass Reflection, is a lively subject, treated in a lively and natural manner. No. 173, The Rabbit-fancier, contains a figure of a half•concealed fox, who is on the look-out for rabbits in a warren ; the subtle, sly expression of Reynard's face is not unworthy of Landseer. No. 174, Winning the Game, has a well-defined perspective. The artist is Horseley. No. 205, Durham, is an impressive landscape by Roberts, but the colouring throughout is too exagger ated. Ths painter does not keep within, but boldly treads without, the limits of nature. No. 242 is a View from Richmond Hill, is by Hoffland ; its chief fault is that the river has too much of a canal aspect, it winds too stiffly, and in too artificial a man ner, through the meadows. No. 280, Richmond, Morning, by Chalon, is better, because more natural. No. 284, The Feast of the Gipsies shows evident marks of thought, and labour, and assiduous attention. It is one of Maclise's most successful productions,' especially as regards the grouping of its numerous figures, which is admirable. No. 358, The Avenue, shows a fine reach of skilfully de fined sylvan perspective, which recalls Wouvertnanns to our recollection. No. 366, Fallow Deer, is by Land seer, and exhibits a spirit, and a close adherence to the propriety of nature, for which, in his own line, this supe rior artist is unequalled. No. 443, King George the Third and the Dying Gipsy, is a very striking production by Mr. Salter. The countenance of the dying creature— the fixed, earnest attitudes of the King, and of the children who are standing beside the couch, are full of vigour. The painting is one of the best in the Institution. No. 134, Fishing Boats, is by Turner. It has a singularly fantastic 'appearance ; and the colouring is wholly unlike anything we ever saw in nature. Altogether, the Exhibition is a fair average one. very CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.) BOOTH V. LSYCESTER. The arguments in this appeal, which were partly heard yesterday, were resumed to-day, but had not concluded when we left. The case ap_ pears likely to occupy the whole day. We gave a short statement of the facts yesterday. His Honour the Vicc.CitANcuLoa did not sit to-day. QUEEN'S BENCH-(THIS DAY.) THE QUEEN V. GARDNER AND OTHERS. Mr. PLATT, Mr. HUMPHREYS, and Mr. LEE, appeared for the prose cution, and Mr. F. KELLY and Mr. C. PHILLIPS, for the defendants. It was an indictment against the defendant and eleven others, for a riot upon Hackney Down, on the 14th of August last. It appeared that a right of common was claimed by the defendants and others, and that for a long period of years, they were in the habit of turning in their cattle to graze upon the Common on the 12th of August. The prosecutor, Mr. Adamson, had at the time several acres of corn growing upon the Common, and seven or eight acres of it remained upon the ground on the 14th, when a large body of persons, among whom were the defendants, broke in upon the ground and carried off the corn. It appeared further, that there was some negligence on the part of the prosecutor, Mr. Adamson, who had been admonished on the I I th, to remove the corn, and that a place would be provided him for drying it, which he did not avail himself of. After a portion of the evidence for the prosecution had been read, Lord DENMAN expressed his regret that the prosecutor had not made sufficient exertion to prevent the destruction of property that had taken place, as he must have been aware that such a right of common existed. At the same time that was no justification of the conduct of the defen dants, who had committed a gross violation of the law. Mr. KELLY, for the defendants, after what had fallen from his Lord ship, had no hesitation in expressing the great regret of the defendants for what had occurred, and they would be glad to submit to any arrangement suggested by the Court which would terminate the pro ceedings. _ . _ Lord DENMCN thought the best course would be for the defendants, who had all been fixed as parties in the riot, to plead guilty, and enter into their own recognizances to appear and receive the judgment of the Court should any future breach of law take place. He thought such an arrangement would be an act of mercy to the defendants. Mr. KELLY said the defendants could not have the slightest objection to such a course. He hoped, also, the prosecutor would not forget the observations of his Lordship. Lord DEN MAN said a little consideration would have, perhaps, pre. vented the occurrence, where a right existed on the part of the public. Mr. HUMPHREYS observed that all the prosecutors required was that they should be protected from future violence, as property to the amount of 1001. and upwards had been carried off. The defendants then entered into their own recognizances, and were discharged. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.): (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before the Loan Cuiae JUSTICE'' and a Spe- cial Jury.) JONES V. HEATON. This is an action brought to recover damages for the infringement of a patent for making bricks. It occupied the Court the whole of yes terday, and is not likely to terminate until a late hour to-day. EXCHEQUER COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Lord A BINGER and a Special Jury.) NAPIER V. HARVEY, ESQ., M. P. This action was brought by the celebrated engineer against the Hon. Member for Southwark, to recover the sum of 7501, the balance of 1,000/., which was the contract price for a steam-engine furnished to the Hon. Defendant, for the purpose of printing the True Sun. Mr. KELLY stated the case for the plaintiff. He said there was no dispute between the parties as to the delivery of the engine, and of its perfect efficiency. He was in a condition to prove that Mr. Harvey had repeatedly expressed his entire satisfaction with it, and that it was per. feet in all its parts. Lord ABINGER had no wish to induce any gentleman to take a course which he was not inclined to; but looking at the pleadings in the case, he felt bound to ask, whether it was not one which might be better set tled out of Court. • " Mr. KELLY said they had been before a Judge at chambers, who had, by consent, made an order which made it nece.-sary fur him to go on. He believed it would not be disputed that 7501. was due to the plaintiff Among the pleas on the record was one which stated that the engine was contracted for to be ready and delivered on the 26th January, or that there should be a demurrage of 251. per day for every day after that date, until the engine was in working order, and Mr. Harvey claimed the 251. per day from the 28th January till the 28th May, when the engine was perfected. In the contract there was a clause, saving the demurrage in case of a general strike amongst the workmen of the plaintiff, which rendered the contract bad in law. The declaration in Mr. Harvey's action was demurred to, and the Judges' order to which he had before alluded was made, by which Mr. Harvey was restricted to only such damage as he had actually sustained, which was the only real question in the cause. Lord AalNoea felt some difficulty with respect to the order; it made him, a Judge sitting in Court, a mere arbitrator, and that was made by a Judge at Chambers ; there was in reality no issue to try. It was a mere enquiry into damages; could they not select some other arbitrator ? Mr. PLATT (who with Mr. Channel appeared for Mr. Harvey) said he had not the slightest objection to follow the course pointed out by the Court. Mr. Harvey's object was merely to obtain justice. He and Mr. Napier were still very good friends, though they had that difference, and had been together yesterday, in order to settle the matter if possible. Lord ABINGER—I feel embarrassed by the order. I think it will be much the better way to appoint a gentleman to settle all matters in dispute. Mr. PL&TY—I am ready to adopt the suggestion. Mr. KELLY—AII we are afraid of is the delay which may take place. Mr. PLATT—There can be no delay. This is not a case in which his Lordship would grant speedy execution, and you can have your award, if it is in your favour, by the first day of next Term. The Counsel conferred for some time, and Mr. KELLY sail they had agreed to refer all matters in dispute to Mr. Mauls upon the usual terms. PLLTT would have it most distinctly understood that he did not admit one of Mr. Kelly's statements. He believed he was in a con dition to show that Mr. Harvey had sustained an actual damage to the amount of 1,300/. Lotd ABINGEIL — Nothing is admitted, and the cause is referred. A man named John Pye, who lived with his bro ther, a bird-fancier, at No. 15, Little Shire-lane, Temple-bar, was yesterday morning, at an ear l y h our , di s covered lying, a pparently asleep, on the pave men t i n t h e back yard. His bro ther attempted to arouse him, hut to his horror he found him a stiffened corpse ! It ii supposed that the unfortunate man, who was in a bad state of health, had got up in the middle of the night and gone down stairs, on reaching the yard had slipped dow , n„a . nd being too weak to rise, or even to call for a ssistance, naa been frozen to d ea th. THE WRECK OF THE KILLARNEY. —Thurs day, in Cork, an inquest was held on the body of Mr. Maurice Morrissy, one of the sufferers who perished in this lamentable wreck. The Captain and others belonging to the steamer were examined, but nothing additional to that already F `fated in the public papers was elicited from their testimony. Tho pro ceedings were adjourned to next day. THE MARKETS.-(THIS PAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. There are very few arrivals of Corn reported this week. The River being still unnavigable, no business is doing here to-day ; but a thaw having commenced, hopes are entertained of trade being shortly resumed. Aitßl V ALS. ' Wheat. Barley. 850 egg I 2,100 qrs. English Irish I - Foreign Oats. flou.r 330 gra. 3,7201 sckp. 4,940 NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. Meat in good supply, and ben er prices paid. Beef, gs. Bd. to 3s. Bd. ; Mutton, 2s. Bd. to 3s. Bd. ; Veal, 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d.; Pork, 4s. to ss. ; Irish, 3s. 4d. to 3s. Bd. Game and Poultry in good supply, and trade to a fair extent ; prices much as when last quoted—viz., Saturday. PROVISION MARKET. The only variation to notice in prices of any kind, is in Butter, both Irish and Foreign, which is 6d. to is. per cwt. lower. We have none but low descriptions of Foreign Butter now in the market. SPIRIT MARKET. Rum is firm, but secures no business, owing to the short stock, which is now 2,666 puns. and 675 hhds. less than at this time last year. Brandy is unaltered in price, but not active. Cognac, 2e. Bd. .to 4s. Bordeaux, 2s. Id. to 2s. 7d. English, Scotch, and Irish Spirits still 9s. 8d per gallon. No alteration in the price of Geneva, which is for Pale, Is. 10d. to ls. 11d. BALTIC PRODUCE MARKET. P.Y.C. Tallow is securing rather more business to-day than y esterday, and prices are 495. There is a little stir in Hemp, and, if it contintle, prices of that commodity will be higher. COLONIAL MARKETS. These •narkets continue much in the same condition as they hare been, except that the thaw this morning caused mote inquiry; still there is but little doing. Po-day there were but few public sales, and with the exception of one of 4,900 bags of Mauritius Sugar, nothing of magnitude. The sale progressed at firm prices when we left; and nothing lower than previous rates was thought about. Brown 545. to 585; low and fine yellow 58s. 6d. to 665; British Plantation Sugar con tinues firm, but the transactions are not very extensive ; the stock is 14,245 hhds. and tierces, being 8,125 less than it was about this time last year. Refined Sugar is dull at 395. for fine crushed- We had a public sale or rather two small ones of Bengal Sugar, which when we left, sold briskly at prices looking up from last quotations of (135. to 67s 6d. for white ; and of 545. to 645. for brown and yellow. Nothing doing privately in Sugar. Coffee is looking up—by private con tract, there is some business doing to-day in Ceylon. To-day, we had two small public sales of British Plantation, which sold at prices firm and full, and where altered, higher a little. The stock of B. P. is 9,38 3 casks, and 1,053 barrels and bags; Ceylon, 21,h74 bags; Mocha 4,07 5 bales ; Brazil, 32,453 bags. There were also two small sales of ltice and. Saltpetre, which realized about yesterday's rate of advance by 6d., prices for the former, and previous prices for the latter. These were all our public sales. Should this thaw continue to -day , it will bring a considerable number of buyers into the market,. as most purchasers will be anxious to be amongst the first. Indigo is :ra ther on the advance; and there has been some considerable busimcss done in Cotton at the buying in prices of last sale. Cocoa is beginning to stir a little after great languour for a considerable time. Spices ;are generally quiet. The Imports are slender, very:,slender ; and in Caln a " dian produce there is nothing new. The business advertised for ;the week of all kinds of produce is very scanty, and for to.morrow there is nothing but Wood and Drugs. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FED. 5, Our Cotton Market this day was very dull, and very little business was transacted, at the same time we cannot alter our last quotations which were in all instances obtained for the small sales of to-dal- About 2,000 bags are the quantity sold-250 Maranham, 7of 9 4 100 Surat, 4; tlf ; 50 Pernam 9 914 ; 30 Egyptian, 9; ; 1,570 Arne rican, 71 9 M.—Total, 2,000. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. 1 Beans. Feast. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to a. s. to a. a. to a. a. li. f llaston Gainsborough — 55 28 20 42 -- Grantham Grimsby llorncastle 42 Gil Z 2 37 j2O 24 38 42 Lincoln 44 59 91 32 14 25 40 44 -- Spalding - Stamford ll 56 28 33 21 25 36 44 ..... York 5O 56 26 34 24 20 32 44 IRISH MARKETS. CORK MARKETS.—Feb S. Wheat (per 205t.)...228 6d. tors. 9d.1 Oats (per 14st.) Barley (per 16st.) ...11 0 12 6 1 Flour (per cwt,) 7ll 20 0 Oatmeal (per cwt.) los. Od. to 16e. Od. Beef, 4d. to bd. ; Mutton, 4d. to 6d. ; Veal, 4d. to 641. ; Pork, 44. to ; Fresh Butter, 10d. to Ild. per lb. PRICE OF BUTTER. To the Merchants. To the County FirstQtudity _____ 925. . __ SU Second 9O 6O Third Fourth 69 Fifth 6l 53 Sixth CLONMELL MA RKETS.— Fob. 3. Per Cwt. s. d. s. d. a. d. s. A. New Butter BO oto 84 0 Hides (raw) 0 to '24 O a tmeal 12 6 13 6 Bacon Pigs 33 0 34 6 A Rendered Lard 0 44 0 Heads '25 0 Per Bag. 0 Flour, Second ... . . .. 34 0 I Flour, Thirds 0 14 0 —Household...— 0 32 01 Fourths 1.1. 0 -- Per Barrel. Rapeseed 20 0 0 I Barley 12 013 tl Bere 8 4 10 0 Coals Per Stone. 4 6 Wheat 0 14 016 1 Tallow (rough) 4 0 3 Oats, A FEROCIOUS WOLF. (Frem the Journal of Grenoble.) On the 30th of January, about ten o'clock at night 01, peasants of the village of Avers were awakened by the noise 0 the church bells, which announced a farm on fire. Men ar 4 women from all quarters instantly hurried to the somewhat distant spot, forgetting the perils that beset their path, in the m iddle of the night, at a season the severity of which had driven all the famished wolves of the mountains to prowl in the plains, and even around the villages. A father and son of the name of Josepll, and another named Alloard, having set out before the oth eis c i and being separated by a short distance from the others, had nearly reached the bridge of Vareille, on the river EYbu r°l4 when a furious she wolf rushed from the wooded part of tbe road on old Joseph, threw him down, and devoured his face and tore his clothes in tatters The unfortunate man had o° defence against the ferocious animal, and his two companions could do nothing but join their cries of despair to his. a Nevertheless, the wolf abandoned its prey, and disappear ° for some time in the thickness of the wood ; but soon after it came back more ardent, more formidable than ever. At th i , instant many other inhabitants ran to the cries of Jasepb his two friends, and were going to transport the w ounde., man to the next village, when the wolf returning, rushed °" the group. consisting of from sixteen to seventeen individua ls ' tearing them one after the other. Surprised, without arlog9 and in the extreme of fright, the unfortunate peasan t s bad 0 ° other resource than the obscurity of the night to escape the attacks of the famished beast ; many of them, horrd") wounded, lay in the snow, whilst the others tried to sa ve themselves by flight. The scene of carnage and frightful desolation had laste d no less than a quarter of an hour, when a young man, call Correard, reached the spot with a h a t c h e t, w hich he h a taken when going to the fire. Without hesitating, tho courageous peasant attacked the furious wolf, who, se°,, i9 ,l this new enemy, aba n d one d th e ot h er v i c ti ms for him, 1 " - c i Correard was fortunat e enoug h t o l a y th e f ur i ous animal del st at his feet. A great num b er o f th e p easan ts were broug" t home in a dreadful s t a t e o f mu til a ti on . It i s to be hoped t h 6 the wolf was not mad. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—An amusing novelty was presented here la s t n i g ht, c all e d 'Ti s Sh e ; or, Ma i d, Wife, and Widow. Mrs. Stirling enacted three c h a racters 1 Miss Raveldeane (the maid), Mrs. Gabbleton (the wife), an Lady Eliza Blackleigh (the widow), which are not, as is COlo r : mon in dramas of this description, the assumption of three PF sonages by one, for the purpose of attaining some otherwlsc unattainable object, but are three distinct persons of t'i v drama, which as many ac t resses m i g ht h ave re p res ented, o n c f, that, being sisters, the exact personal resemblance to ea „ other is of material c onsequence to t h e wor ki ng o f the and, therefore, as the author of the piece has so contrived that no two of them ever appear in the same scene, the ills sion is more perfectly preserved by the three being undertalo° by one representative, which, though it had the effect of (Wes sionina• some perplexity during the performanc e o f t h e piece" was sufficiently e cleared up at its denouem en t. Colon e l C a rlete ° (J. Webster), is the lover of the fair widow, but encountering alternately the maid and the wife, and believing them to be one and the same person, his addresses to each lead to laughab l y confusion and rencontres of a no pleasant nature with Che rie ; Dorrington (Mr. Sidney), the lover of Sophia, Mr. Gen r g, Gabbleton (Mr. Wright), the husband of Mrs. G., and Ali t miral Triton (Mr. Brookes), the guardian of the three 13 ,1 5 at last the Colonel succeeds in obtaining the hand of ," inamorata. Webster did the little he had to do with juag; ment, and Wright, perhaps, never before played so quietly well. Mrs. Stirling was naive in the hoyden maid, gabb l d ' after the " butterwoman's rate of market" in the wife, an d , looked and played the lively widow to the life ; and at the e n a of the piece she was called before the curtain to be congratula te The river Thames yesterday was blocked up with ice several times, but the ebbing and flowing of the tide occasinei ally left openings in the stream, through which a few c°;_ 1, craft and boats were navigated with some difficulty, but 1 " other business on the river was at a stand still. There wa s , 8 passage over the ice to and from the Tender ship off t'' f Tower, during the day, but the ice is too i r regular to allow 0 any one to skate or slide over it. The bights of the Tham es in the pool and reaches below bridge are covered with fields ice and icebergs piled one upon another, and a long and raP!„ thaw alone will open the navig a ti on o f t h e r i ver . One Or got into the London Dock on Sunday night, and another COI Oporto on Monday eveni ng . Th ese are a ll t h e arr i va ls, O l a the exception of three st eamers at Bl ac k wa ll, we h a ve be ar , of for the last two days. Th e weat h er - w i se say th er e is „ probability of the discontinuance of the frost for some and we may, therefore, expect a much longer interruptio n 1 " commerce and the busi ness of the docks and port of Lond e°. There would have b een , aro t hi s , a f rost f a i r on the Thanl e q between London and Blackfriars-bridges, but the removal 0 , old London-brid ge and the starlings, which in olden t irn _ obstructed the current as well as the ice, and the substitu tio ; of a wide and c l ear water way un d er the present bridge, b prevented any extra or di nar y accumu l a ti on o f i ce a bove bril l , and it now p asses f ree l y up an d d own w i t h t h e t id e s, 0 1 occasionally causing a block from side to side. The mention of broken necks reminds m t., of an f anecdote of a hard-riding Leicestershire grazier, in the days ° , l the renowned Mr. Meynell. Getting a bad fall one day, an being picked up apparently lifeless by some of the field v whom he was unknown, they began to pull him violently le his heels and his head, supposing, by the unnatural position if`, the latter, that his neck was dislocated. Coming to him ° a however, during the operation, he thus addressed the g °o os. Samaritans who had stopped to afford him relief,—a thing rt ... always to be looked for when hounds are going the [iCC " Don't yo pull, gentlemen, I w as born so." The fact wa g ', ns lie came i n t o th e wor ld lik e a wry - nec k e d s h e ep, with ' head over one shoulder.—Nimrod.